Republican Senators went straight to the man box tools all abusers use.

— I fully understand that this is a triggering subject. I do not raise this issue lightly, and I don’t do so without raising the ugly specter of my own history of traumatic abuse, which is as follows. As far back as I can recall, I lived in fear of my own abuser. Other boys…

Mark Greene explains why the single dominant message our culture tells us is such a killer.

American men, accustomed to exercising power for generations, are adrift in a liminal cultural space unlike any we have ever experienced. — Sorry guys. I really wish I had better news for you, but who we are and how we got here is not a pretty story. And now, we are suspended, rudderless, between our…

Boys and girls are living in a culture that strips them of relationships.

— This video is one of a series designed to spark a conversation about emotional expression and relational intelligence. Emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) is commonly understood to mean emotional self-awareness, the ability to name, understand and manage our emotions. We’re also talking about Relational Intelligence. That is, the acknowledgment that emotional connection happens…

When we shift from roles to relationships, we shift from acting on others to acting with them

All parents hold uncertainty. All parents play. Relational capacities like these are already active in millions of homes across the world. When we practice relational capacities in a mindful way, we center our relationships. The choice to center relationships holds a powerful promise: It is what ultimately can get us unstuck in all aspects of…

Both families and buisnesses can focus too heavily on hierarchy, roles, control, and risk-averse decision making

One of the most generative ways to leverage the power of play in our lives is by seeing it as a force for making organizations more lateral. Play is equally powerful in small organizations, like families, or big organizations, like companies. In either case, play shifts our daily interactions away from roles and more toward…